Goettel Escarpment
| Goettel Escarpment | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Dyer Plateaus | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 14 ′ S , 66 ° 56 ′ W | |
The Goettel Escarpment is a prominent step on the Dyer Plateau in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 8 km north of the Orion massif and near the head of the Chapman Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after Frederick A. Goettel of the United States Coast Guard , commander of USCGC Westwind in support of the construction of the Palmer Station as part of Operation Deep Freeze in 1967.
Web links
- Goettel Escarpment in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Goettel Escarpment on geographic.org (English)